The series was going to see sooner or later if it was possible to have battles like the anime in the games.
I actually like some ideas here like Sticky Web laying down a web on the ground that slows down pokemon or Stealth Rocks actually creating a floating hazard pokemon have to try and avoid. The game definitely needed more time to bake though. It is awkward how pokemon are glued to the trainer and seem to depend on them for repositioning, there should be options for telling the pokemon AI to run away from you or stay close to enemy and stuff like that. The cooldown on moves also seem to be too long, gameplay looks like people just recycling through their movesets while waiting on cooldowns.